Reflections of Home - solo show Ebb and Flow - Reading, UK

What makes a home? Is it a structure, a memory, a body, or a feeling we spend our lives searching for? Reflection of Home is an exhibition that explores the shifting meaning of home through themes of safety, estrangement, identity, and belonging. The exhibition examines how domestic spaces shape who we are — and how they can both comfort and unsettle us.

At the heart of the exhibition is the tension between the familiar and the uncanny. The home is often imagined as a place of refuge: intimate, protective, and deeply personal. Yet domestic spaces can also become sites of anxiety, isolation, displacement, or transformation. Rooms appear distorted, objects become symbolic, and everyday rituals take on unfamiliar meanings. Through altered interiors, fragmented architectures, and imagined dwellings, the works invite viewers to reconsider what lies beneath the surface of comfort and normality.

The exhibition also asks how identity is constructed through the spaces we inhabit. Our homes carry traces of culture, class, migration, memory, and desire. They become extensions of the self — curated, inherited, temporary, or imagined. For some, home is rooted in geography or family; for others, it exists in movement, digital spaces, communities, or acts of survival. Reflection of Home reflects on the emotional and psychological landscapes we build in response to a changing world.

Moving between tenderness and discomfort, familiarity and estrangement, the exhibition creates a space where visitors can reflect on their own relationship to home: what it protects, what it conceals, and what it reveals about who we are.

A big thank you to  @thejellyreading and to @ebb.and.flow.reading

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